Open Earth Monitor — Global Workshop 2024

Workshop: Data Spaces: the EC solution for environmental, biodiversity and climate challenges. Different approaches on multisource data, semantics, FAIRness and sovereignty
2024-10-02, 16:30–17:15, Maria Theresia Seminar room (Conference Center Laxenburg)

Integrity of natural ecosystems is one of the main concerns of current European and Global Green Policies, e.g., the European Green Deal. Public administration managers need reliable and long-term information for a better monitoring of the ecosystems and climate evolution and inform decision makers. Data Spaces are intended to become the EC comprehensive solution to integrate data from different sources with the aim to generate and provide a more ready to use knowledge on climate change, circular economy, pollution, biodiversity, and deforestation. This workshop aims to discuss pros and cons of some technological solutions in terms of Data Spaces, OGC standards, semantic descriptions, datacubes, FAIR principles and sovereignty of data. It also intends to share lessons learned from main EC projects dealing with the topic: AD4GD, GREAT, B-cubed, Fairicube, etc.

Recording of the session:
https://youtu.be/JH14NmIazpc?si=I8jQUkY5uWhLfzE8


Solutions for multisource geospatial integration will be shared between:
- AD4GD (Joan Masó, Ivette Serral)
- Fairicube (Kathi Schleidt)
- USAGE (Giacomo Martirano), and
- OEMC (Milutin Milenkovic)

Open discussion topics will focus on:
- Semantic interoperability
- Metadata
- Multisource Data Integration
- Connectors
- Authentication & Privacy
- Geospatial User Feedback (GUF)


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Dr. Joan Masó (m) is a Principal investigator of CREAF leading specialized group on geospatial interoperability, GIS, remote sensing . (PhD in Geography, MSc in Physics, and a MSc in Electronic Engineering all in the UAB). Since 1995 he is a researcher at CREAF and GIS developer. Co-creator of the MiraMon compressed map in 1997 that has evolved into a distribution and preservation format. Teacher in a RS and GIS master in the UAB. Creator of Remote Sensing imagery visualization and download software for web data portals (the MiraMon Map Browser). Expert in JPEG2000 format. He is an active member of the TC of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 2003 (editor OGC 07- 057r7 WMTS standard and the new OGC 20-057 OGC API Tiles among others and chair of the Iberian and Latin American Forum; ILAF). Spanish representative in the TC 211 and editor of the ISO 19165 Preservation of geospatial data and metadata. OGC Gardels gold medal in 2018. Coordinator of GeoViQua FP7 project (research project about visualization of quality information in GEOSS), H2020 ConnectinGeo and currently HE AD4GD. Participant in several European projects related with biodiversity, citizen science, remote sensing and research infrastructures such as H2020 ECOPOTENTIAL, H2020 GroundTruth 2.0, H2020 WeObserve H2020 ERA-PLANET, H2020 E-Shape, H2020 BestMap, H2020 COS4Cloud (INTRAEOSC project), H2020 Framework-biodiversity, H2020 WQeMS, HE OEMC, HE CitiObs, HE More4Nature, - ESA-IHE Phenotandem, EEA InCASE, as well as some other national and local projects related both with remote sensing and geospatial standards and applications. Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) former division president in the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Chair of the OGC API Common, OGC API Tiles and OGC API Maps working groups and member of the OGC Architecture Board. Co-chair of the Citizens Science GEOSS working group. Senior member of IEEE and member of the International Society of Digital Earth (ISDE) council. Chair of the Community of Practice in Interoperability for Citizen Science.

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Ivette Serral. BSc in Environmental Sciences and MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS for the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. With more than ten years of experience in environmental geospatial research related to European and national projects. At CREAF she is focused on geospatial data management, from standardization to analysis and visualization following FAIR principles, She also contributes to the MiraMon GIS software development and applications. She co-coordinated the GeoViQua FP7 project (2007-2013) and ConnectinGEO H2020 (2015-2017). She is participating in AD4GD HE (2022-2024) on the development of the Green Deal Data Space and in coordinating the tasks in Pilot 2 on biodiversity and terrestrial habitat connectivity.
She is leading the GEO Community Activity on Essential Variables,
She is member of the EuroGEO Action Group on Data Spaces.